All the things that I wanted to do pushing the obstacles out of my son's way because I just wanted to stop the pain.

But a lot of times when I want to stop the pain for my kids, it's that pain

and that shaping that God is longing to do in their lives. That's what I'm pushing out of the

way for this temporary benefit.

That's Janelle Brightenstein and she's our guest today on focus on the family with Jim

Daly. I'm John Fuller.

You know, John, I think as parents we so want our kids obviously at the very core to embrace faith in Christ right?

So we're doing everything sometimes probably a little formulaically to try to get to that point where they make that

confession of faith. But in the end, I mean it's aiming for the heart and making sure

they understand that God loves them, that their identity is in Christ and that they are loved even regardless of their

behavior and sometimes that's hard for us as parents to express but man that I believe is what's going to lead to a healthy relationship

with God through Jesus Christ and today we want to help equip your children to

become disciples who are on fire for the Lord and we have a great

guest to talk about it. Yeah and there aren't formulas so much as an approach and

boy our guest Janelle Brightenstein has a terrific approach she She's an author, freelance writer and

speaker, and she's mom to four, and she's been here before. We're going to talk

about her book called Permanent Markers, Spiritual Life Skills to write on your kids' hearts.

And you can find out more details about the book.

Just check it out.

The link is in the show notes.

Janelle, welcome back.

Thanks, it's so great to be here again.

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